Now that things are starting to come together pretty well, I figured I’d post up a screenshot of what the new MDC is looking like at the moment. This picture was admittedly carefully selected to minimize the appearance of the minor issues still waiting to be resolved, but should be fairly close to what the final site will look like.

You can click on that to get a full-size look.

Among the issues we’re still working on are minor cosmetic things, such as the size and style of headings. The second and third levels of headers are too close to one another in appearance right now, which makes things look slightly awkward in places.

If all goes well, we should be opening up the test server for people to check out sometime in the coming week, after the current round of debugging is finished.

I’m not sure. It will certainly disrupt the current translation process, since we have to go back and forth between (at least) two languages on several articles in the same browsing session (I heavily use browser tabs in this process). But I can see how it makes sense for the casual reader.
Maybe we’ll need a “translator skin” with direct links available, or something like a Greasemonkey script to do this.

By the way, is there a plan to have a public beta somewhere to better understand how our workflow will change before the big launch?